Medicine: Boxer's Ban

Thomas KÖpcke, 18, was one of West Germany's more promising young
boxers. Just last year the sturdily built youth was runner-up in his
nation's junior heavyweight competitions. Now KÖpcke's career has been
brought to an abrupt halt by an X-ray device known as the CAT scanner.

During one of the routine, twice-yearly physical examinations required
for all boxers under West German regulations, a standard
electroencephalogram showed an "irregularity" in KÖpcke's brain-wave
pattern. Doctors then used the CAT (for "computerized axial
tomography") scanner to make cross-section images of the boxer's...